MOLE

Utah Philosophy has traditionally sorted its reading groups under two titles: TIP (for "Thoroughly Imprecise Philosophy") and MOLE (for "More or Less Exact Philosophy").

Over the course of March to May 2014, TIP will read its way through the so-called Missing Explanation Argument literature.

We'll meet on Mondays at Nobrow, 3:00-4:30, starting March 24; contact Elijah Millgram for more information.

1. March 24: Johnston, "Explanation, Response-Dependence and Judgement-Dependence", RSSS Working Papers in Philosophy 1, 1991.
2. March 31: Johnston, "Are Manifest Qualities Response-Dependent?"
3. April 7: Menzies and Pettit, "Found: The Missing Explanation" (Analysis 53.2, 1993); Miller, "The Missing-Explanation Argument Revisited" (Analysis 61.1, 2001); Haukioja, "Why the New Missing Explanation Argument Fails, Too" (Erkenntnis 64, 2006).

Previous reading groups:

• Ladyman and Ross, Every Thing Must Go.
• William Whewell, Elements of Morality (Summer 2010)
• William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (Summer 2009)
• Idealization (Fall 2006, directed by Anya Plutynski)
• Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution (Summer 2006)
• Virtue ethics (Fall 2002)